I would like to paste pictures directly into a discussion or a document.

Currently it appears I have to save a screenshot to a file, and the click "Insert image" within my document and browse to it.

I want to be able to cut and paste directly into my document I am editing. I do a lot of pasting images into documents, and to have to save them to disk first and then browse to them is a huge time suck.

While you can currently paste images from any web page directly into the text editor, this doesn't help with screenshots. That's something we would love to be able to do, but it's not currently possible with JavaScript rich text editors (like ours), which offer much more functionality than alternative text editors. It turns out there is a ton of discussion about this feature for many apps across the web. The net-net is that JavaScript access to the clipboard is considered a browser security risk. There are some alternative approaches but at least for now they don't present a good experience or wide accessibility. It's a great suggestion though and we will absolutely be keeping an eye out!

I am bringnig this old thread up but i do think this paste picture functionnality is really important.

Personnally, and it is the case of many of my coleagues too, not having this functionnality is a draw back for creating docs in Jive (rather than simply uploading docs). The pictures do not necessarelly come from screencaptures neither.

I read in some threads that this functionnality will be brought up in Jive 5. We recently have upgraded our Test envirronment but unfortuantelly i still can't paste an image into the text editor.

Therefore i come to you to ask this works or not ? If yes what are the pre requisties, ...

Hi Aidan. Support may be able to some more help on this, but from how I at least have seen work (and with drag and drop in general), it's usually geared towards dragging files, e.g., from your desktop or file system, rather than images inside other applications. For example, try placing an image on your desktop, then dragging that into the editor. Hope that helps!

However, on that note, I had another use-case which I was wondering if we can do anything about. We as community managers/site admins work on UAT & production. So especially when it comes to bootstraping a community (including designing/layouts), we usually work on it in our UAT environment and then move it to production. With images, what happens is, if we have done the layout and adding of images in a widget on UAT, and then if we try to copy that (even the HTML code) and try pasting it in production it doesn't work. I am sure there are some obvious reasons - I see the links to images in HTML mode and realize they are some form of internal Jive coded links which probably the reason why it doesn't work. But maybe it would be a good idea to have the images work seamlessly between Jive environments. This will also help a lot of customers who have both Internal & External communities to quickly setup and mirror some of their internal groups on their external communities. Thoughts?

Olivia, that sounds good and definitely would be very helpful in the long run. However that might be very epic in nature as a feature. I was wondering, wouldn't the point I mentioned above could be just an extension to allowing copy-paste? I could be wrong but it seems like if we can just extend the capability to copy-paste a file and move that around within the customize widget mode, then we could probably do that between instances too?

I'm seeing this as an extremely valuable feature. A case in point is blog postings (which a lot of times can be image heavy for internal use, screen caps in particular), not having the ability to copy/paste from the clipboard directly into the wysiwyg editor adds a lot of time to the content creation effort. In some of my testing, it more than doubles content creation time versus content management systems that do allow such a feature option.

Saving 5 minutes here and 10 minutes there by not having to save to file and then inserting is only going to increase adoption, I see this as a valuable feature!

Any insights into whether this has been roadmapped for an upcoming release (last note above is from more than two years ago)?

agree 100%, it discourages me from posting as much content, because it takes twice as long as other cms's for postings with heavy image content by not being app to screen cap and paste. What takes 5 seconds in one cms takes 30 seconds in jive, b/c of the lack of the copy from clipboard image feature..

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